Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"
|    comp.os.linux.misc    |    Linux-specific topics not covered by oth    |    135,536 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 134,141 of 135,536    |
|    Carlos E.R. to The Natural Philosopher    |
|    Re: X11 forks    |
|    31 Dec 25 18:48:08    |
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-31 13:09, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   > On 31/12/2025 10:50, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> I don't really know if my hardware box does 3D or not. I don't have   
   >> the proprietary driver for the AMD video card, so it either runs   
   >> slower or some features are off. But this way I don't have to bother   
   >> installing external drivers.   
   >>   
   >> I can play Tux Racer. I can play flightgear. I understand those two   
   >> games use 3D.   
   >>   
   >> However, vmware complains that "there is no 3D available from the   
   >> host", and thus, clients do not have 3D. I installed a virtual machine   
   >> with openSUSE Leap 16.0, which is wayland by default. There is no   
   >> graphical mode, it crashes. I forced "legacy" X mode, and it works fine.   
   >   
   > IIRC there are various 3D shims that are more (or less) supported by the   
   > underlying hardware and drivers...   
   >   
   > Direct-X? OpenGL?   
      
   I have no idea. I don't remember how to test for those :-D   
      
   Everything works, though. Except 3D in vmware.   
      
   I'll ask chatgpt.   
      
   cer@Telcontar:~> glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer|OpenGL   
   version"   
   OpenGL vendor string: AMD   
   OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (radeonsi, polaris10, LLVM   
   17.0.6, DRM 3.57, 6.4.0-150600.23.81-default)   
   OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.3.4   
   cer@Telcontar:~>   
      
   glxgears works.   
      
   Direct-X is a windows thing, check inside wine.   
      
   cer@Telcontar:~> wine dxdiag   
   ...   
   wine: configuration in L"/home/cer/.wine" has been updated.   
   015c:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERF   
   RMANCE_INFORMATION   
   015c:fixme:wbemprox:wbem_services_CreateInstanceEnum unsupported flags 0x30   
   015c:fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported   
   015c:fixme:ddraw:ddraw7_Initialize Ignoring guid {aeb2cdd4-6e41-   
   3ea-941c-8361cc760781}.   
   015c:fixme:dxdiag:wWinMain Information dialog is not implemented   
   cer@Telcontar:~>   
      
      
      
   So it is a vmware thing.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
|
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca